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Comments (31)For those of you having troubles with cukes and squash, you might want to inter-plant with nasturtiums next time, try it! My garden in 9b is just going to be one year old, or should I rather say, I will be celebrating one year of being the garden's loving custodian....so I have lots of troubles. In march/April I had a jungle of brassicas (both rapas and oleraceas). I had this green explosion and almost ran out of room in the freezer. Turnips, kales, collards, bok choi, beet greens, you name it. When it got warmer the harlequin beetles attacked them and they all died, after I had hopes for their perennialization (a word?). The Harlequin proceeded to suck the jalapenos and the tomatoes, ruining several tomato plants too. I was (am) so afraid to put brassicas on the ground again, until I realized I need to give them sacrificial crops. This started to work to some extent last year, and my fear was that sunflowers would not sprout at this time of the year. Guess what? they did! I now have sunflowers growing and I just planted some kale and mustards near them. Not sure if nasturtiums will do the trick for brassicas but I put them in too. We also got some brussel sprouts trying to germinate in a protected environment (terrarium), I think I will use the plastic cylinders from soft drink bottles that grandad from Louisiana is showing on the cole crops thread. So glad I overcame my fear of trying brassicas again. I still have to successfully grow cauliflowers and broccoli though. We will see how the brussel sprouts do and think about it, my cauliflowers never flowered last year, but the leaves were good....LOL In the mean time, the amaranth is still producing as many greens as I need. They are tougher leaves now that the plants are seeding, so I just cook them longer and they are still acceptable. Whatever tries to attack them gets in turn eaten by a large collection of lady bugs that seem to hang out near them a lot. I am encouraging more lady bugs by planting more and more cilantro. When they reach their end I will still have several dozen pounds of frozen green in the freezer from the spring. After that I hope the cole crops will be ready to harvest, and the harlequins somewhat controlled. So I hope anyways. I was so furious when i found out they are an introduced species! grrrr.....and no predators either, not even chickens will eat them. Anybody knows of other sacrificial crops to deter bugs from cole crops? I will need something after the sunflowers run their course, but I suppose since now I know they will grow at any time, I can keep planting more and more sunflowers. A very handsome looking sacrificial crop at that........See MoreHave you ever been a Nielsen Family?
Comments (11)Well, I talked to the rep. She said they don't use as much equipment as they used to but they do still take apart your TV and all that. For us it would be for 2 years, if we do it, and our viewing choices would represent 28,000 households. Hmmm, no reality shows in this house, LOL. We still haven't decided yet. Oh, and they pay 68.00 up front with periodic checks. She didn't say how much the checks are for, but that's better than 12.00 a year. Especially if it turned into one big hassle regarding the TV equipment and all that. Radio! They'd be disappointed with us too, Deanna. We only listen to it in the car. Did they hook up your car radio? Annie, they'd be fine with what you watch. They want all different kinds of watchers, which is good. I asked her if I could turn the thing on and off because I often leave the TV on for the dog. Now I'll have to be careful about what I leave on for her - if we do it....See MoreHave you ever been in handcuffs?
Comments (22)Some years ago, many people had jobs building locomotives in a nearby city for General Motors ... but when GM was near bankruptcy, they sold off assets, including the factory building the locomotives. Another company bought the factory and, for whatever reason, things didn't go so well, or maybe they'd planned that. Another corporation in the large equipment field bought the factory a while ago. Many of the workers have been making something over $30.00 per hour. The new owner said that they'd pay about $16.00 - take it or leave it, and when the contract expired, locked the workers out. Within about a month, one of the workers, interviewed on the radio, told of being embarrassed to have needed to go to the food bank. If I've been making $30.00+ per hour ... no way am I going to be so strapped that I have to visit a food bank within a month of the paycheque stopping! Don't live paycheque to paycheque, folks! Plus ... if you carry substantial consumer-related (as contrasted to investment-related) debt, e.g. credit card balances carried for a number of months ... ... that's what I call being in leg irons, in addition to the handcuffs!! ole joyful P.S. Part of the story is that, about three or four years ago, U.S. folks coming to visit Canada could get a Canadian buck for about 70 cents ... ... and lately they've had to pay from US 96 cents to US$1.05. I suggested to some folks here, back then, that it might be a good idea to move some money offshore, possibly to Canada. o j...See MoreHave you ever been obsessed by a famous historical figure?
Comments (43)I've spent a lot of time with Louisa May Alcott. Her backstory is so fascinating - as are many people of her era - & the era itself. Another that really captured me was Henriette Deluzy-Desportes. After seeing the Bette Davis/Charles Boyer movie, "All This And Heaven Too", I had to get the book to read (which chronicled so much more of her life) & then became interested in its author, Rachel Field, who also had a very interesting backstory, being related to Henriette through the man she ultimately married. Her introduction to that book describes how she grew up picnicking amongst the tombstones of her new England ancestors & how it inspired her to research & write about this mysterious woman. Henriette Deluzy-Desportes...See More
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